An Examination of the Relationship Between Parents' Attitudes and Actions Pertaining to Mathematics and Their First-Grade Private School Children's Attitudes Towards Mathematics

Public accusations often lead to controversy. Accusations have been studied as causing certain types of defense, as well as for how accusing parties persuade audiences of guilt, and amplify an act’s offensiveness. We investigate a satire programme as a strategic act, with a specific focus on how its accusatory rhetorical structure strategically invites certain responses, and counteracts others. We show how a segment in the news satire programme ‘Swedish News’ constructed a complex accusation against the Swedish private school queue system, and against the character of the educated middle class who tend to use it. The segment’s structure places the accused middle class as an addressed audience in three different subject positions, wherein the relationship between them motivates penance rather than defense. The analysis shows how a changing positioning of the same group as judge, victim and accused can perform certain functions in accusatory speech, indicating roads to redemption and opening up for possibilities of reconciliation

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Is Daily Parental Help with Homework Helpful? Reanalyzing National Data Using a Propensity Score–Based Approach

Sociology of Education ◽

10.1177/0038040719867598 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 92 (4) ◽

pp. 367-385 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Angran Li ◽

Daniel Hamlin

Keyword(s):

Student Achievement ◽

Propensity Score ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

First Grade ◽

Minority Status ◽

National Data ◽

High Propensity ◽

Prior Achievement ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

The Relationship

Previous analyses of large national datasets have tended to report a negative relationship between parental homework help and student achievement. Yet these studies have not examined heterogeneity in this relationship based on the propensity for a parent to provide homework help. By using a propensity score–based approach, this study investigates the relationship between daily parental homework help in first grade and student achievement in third grade with nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten Class. Results indicated that low prior achievement, socioeconomic disadvantage, and minority status were associated with a high propensity to provide daily homework help. Daily parental homework help was also associated with improved achievement for children whose parents had a high propensity to provide daily homework help. These patterns suggest that complex factors induce daily parental homework help and that these factors are related to heterogeneity in the relationship between daily parental homework help and achievement.

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Who Gets the Top Jobs? The Role of Family Background and Networks in Recent Graduates’ Access to High-status Professions

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279414000634 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 487-515 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

LINDSEY MACMILLAN ◽

CLAIRE TYLER ◽

ANNA VIGNOLES

Keyword(s):

Private School ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Family Background ◽

High Status ◽

Additional Advantage ◽

Early Access ◽

University Selection ◽

Recent Graduates ◽

The Relationship

AbstractThere is currently debate in policy circles about access to ‘the upper echelons of power’ (Sir John Major, ex Prime Minister, 2013). This research explores the relationship between family background and early access to top occupations. We find that privately educated graduates are a third more likely to enter into high-status occupations than state educated graduates from similarly affluent families and neighbourhoods, largely due to differences in educational attainment and university selection. We find that although the use of networks cannot account for the private school advantage, they provide an additional advantage and this varies by the type of top occupation that the graduate enters.

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Perceptual-Motor Skills, Ability to Conserve, and School Readiness

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1974.38.2.491 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 491-494 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jerry B. Ayers ◽

Michael E. Rohr ◽

Mary N. Ayers

Keyword(s):

School Readiness ◽

Motor Skills ◽

First Grade ◽

Logical Thinking ◽

Metropolitan Readiness Test ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Perceptual Motor Skills

To determine the relationship of perceptual-motor skills and ability to conserve to school readiness, 94 Ss in kindergarten and first grade were administered the Purdue Perceptual-motor Survey, the Metropolitan Readiness Test, and six Piaget tasks to measure logical thinking. Scores on the Purdue scale and Piaget tasks were not correlated; however, both sets of scores were moderately correlated with school readiness as measured by the Metropolitan test.

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What Do Children with Speech Sound Disorders Think about Their Talking?

Seminars in Speech and Language ◽

10.1055/s-0039-1677760 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (02) ◽

pp. 094-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Sharynne McLeod ◽

Kathryn Crowe ◽

Jane McCormack

Keyword(s):

Significant Relationship ◽

Speech Sound ◽

Speech Sound Disorders ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

Children's Attitudes ◽

Speech Accuracy ◽

Clinical Measures ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Preschool Aged Children

AbstractInvestigating children's feelings and attitudes toward talking assists speech–language pathologists (SLPs) to understand experiences of communication and the impact of speech sound disorders (SSD). This, in turn, can assist SLPs in identifying appropriate intervention for children with SSD that addresses the needs of children, and their communication partners. This paper draws on data from the Sound Start Study in Australia to explore the attitudes toward talking of 132 preschool-aged children with SSD and the relationship between children's attitudes, speech accuracy, and parent-reported intelligibility and participation. The study revealed most of the children with SSD had a positive attitude toward talking. There was a significant relationship between children's attitudes toward talking and speech accuracy. Furthermore, there was a significant relationship between speech accuracy and parents' perceptions of intelligibility and participation. However, there was no significant relationship between children's attitudes and parents' perceptions. These results highlight similarities and differences between attitudes and experiences of preschool-aged children, their performance on clinical measures, and their parents' perceptions, indicating the need for SLPs to consider each of these areas during assessment and intervention.

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Hydrological Zoning System for Highway Engineering

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.744-746.1257 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 744-746 ◽

pp. 1257-1260

Author(s):

Yu Lan Wang ◽

Chao Li

Keyword(s):

Index System ◽

Research Work ◽

First Grade ◽

Analysis Model ◽

Highway Engineering ◽

Research Framework ◽

Intensity Index ◽

Set Up ◽

The Relationship ◽

Slope Runoff

In order to strengthen the normalization of the highway hydrology Zoning research work and improve the efficiency of Zoning, the analysis model of slope runoff intensity index was set up. The provincial highway hydrological Zoning index system was built to fully embody the relationship between highway engineering and hydrological factors. The research framework of provincial highway hydrology Zoning was established. The highway hydrology Zoning research framework and Zoning indices was taken as the guidance to divide Shandong province into 2 first-grade highway hydrological regions and 6 highway hydrological subregions which reflect the overall distribution of the highway hydrological conditions in the research region correctly. The corresponding descriptions were given to introduce the highway engineering characteristics of each partition.

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When does math anxiety in parents and teachers predict math anxiety and math achievement in elementary school children? The role of gender and grade year

Social Psychology of Education ◽

10.1007/s11218-020-09570-2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 1023-1054

Author(s):

Monika Szczygieł

Keyword(s):

Elementary School Children ◽

Math Achievement ◽

Math Anxiety ◽

First Grade ◽

Third Grade ◽

Final Grade ◽

Early School ◽

The Relationship ◽

Social Source

Abstract The study investigated the relationship between math anxiety in parents and teachers and math anxiety and math achievement in first- to third-grade children. The results indicate that math anxiety in fathers (but not mothers and teachers) is associated with math anxiety in first-grade children and third-grade girls. Math anxiety in mothers and teachers (but not fathers) explains the level of math achievement in third-grade children. The research results indicate the importance of adults in shaping pupils’ math anxiety and math achievement, but these relationships vary depending on gender and the grade year. The obtained outcomes generally suggest that adults’ math anxiety is not a social source of children’s math anxiety, but it can be considered a source of low math achievement among children in the final grade of early school education.

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